Ethiopia to share best Green Legacy practices on the sidelines of AU Summit

Addis Ababa February 17, 2023 (FBC) – Ethiopia has finalized preparations to share its best Green Legacy practices to various African countries on the sidelines of the 36th AU ordinary summit of heads of states, Coordinator disclosed.

Green Legacy Initiative National Committee Coordinator Adefris Worku (PhD) told EPA that the African continent is hydrologically connected by nature, thus, it is impacted by climate change, desertification, deforestation, land degradation and others. He, therefore, said that to overcome these challenges, Ethiopia has been implementing the Green Legacy Initiative.

Ethiopia’s green legacy initiative has encouraged neighboring countries to build a resilient socio-economic community. Its achievements on highland investments, specifically landscape restoration, forest and environment conservation and other activities have been benefiting not only Ethiopia, but also the riparian countries, the coordinator said.

It was learnt that community mobilization, landscape and deforestation restoration, leaders’ commitment, tree based landscape restoration or nature based solutions, sense of ownership, achievement of ambitious plans, media outlets contribution, land and forest conservation and others are identified to share African brothers as best practices on the sidelines of this AU Summit.

“We plan to start best practices sharing from tree based landscape restoration activities. These activities have created more jobs for the youth and other communities. Currently, the number of seedling multiplication stations has reached to 121, 000. These all created more jobs, too.”

The efforts of ministries and other institutions in implementing green legacy initiatives have been bearing fruit and have become exemplary for other countries. Ethiopia plans to expand its green legacy initiative and its best practices to strengthen Pan-Africanism. For next winter, Ethiopia has been receiving seedling demands of neighboring countries to expand the initiative.